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Older adults are growing fast and there are several different age groups of older
adults. Please know the differences/categories.
✓ ~~~ - Youngest-Old = 65-74 years
✓
✓ - Middle-Old = 75-84 years
✓
✓ - Oldest-Old = 85+ years
What is aging? What is healthy aging?
✓ ~~~ Aging is the process of becoming older; represents accumulation of changes
over time - encompassing physical, psychological & social changes. Changes that
constitute & influence aging are complex:
✓ - At a biological level, aging is associated with the gradual accumulation of a wide
variety of molecular & cellular damage; over time, this damage leads to a gradual
decrease in physiological reserves, an increased risk of many diseases & a general
decline in the capacity of the individual.
✓ - Ultimately, aging will result in death.
Healthy Aging is "the process of developing & maintaining the functional ability that
enables well-being in the older adult."
What kind of bias or difficulties do older adults usually face?
✓ ~~~ Ageism: stereotypes, prejudice & discrimination directed towards others or
oneself based on age.
,- Explicit ageism: refers to ageism that is consciously &intentionally engaged in by a
person.
- Gendered ageism: the intersection between ageism & gender bias; may account for
differences in the ageism faced by women & men.
- Implicit ageism: engaged in by a person without conscious awareness & intention.
- Institutional ageism: laws, rules, norms, policies & practices of institutions & the
ideologies that are fostered to justify them - that unfairly restrict opportunities &
systematically disadvantage individuals based on their age.
- Interpersonal ageism: occurring during interactions between 2 or more individuals;
the perpetrator is distinguished from the target of ageism
- Self-directed ageism: ageism turned against oneself; people internalize biases
based on age from the surrounding culture after being repeatedly exposed to them &
then apply the biases to themselves.
Elder abuse:
,- A single or repeated act or a lack of appropriate action occurring within any
relationship in which there is an expectation of trust, that causes harm or distress to
an older person; forms - financial, physical, psychological & sexual; can also be the
result of neglect (including self-neglect.
Elder-speak:
- Adjustments to speech patterns that are sometimes made by younger people when
communicating with older adults, such as speaking more slowly or more loudly,
shortening sentences or using limited or less complex vocabulary.
- These simplified speech patterns are implicitly based on the assumption that older
adults are cognitively impaired or incapable of understanding normal speech.
Prejudice:
- Affective reaction or feeling that is directed towards an individual who belongs to a
specific social group.
- In the case of ageism,
What are the proper words you should use for older adults?
✓ ~~~ Preferred:
- Older adult(s)
- Older person(s)
- Older patients/residents
, - Older individuals
- Persons 65 years & older
- The older population
Do NOT Use:
- Elder, elders, elderly
- Senior, seniors
- Senior citizens
- Golden agers
- Sages, super adults
- Old, mature
- Retiree
- Geriatric
Describe health promotion principles and aims for older adults.
✓ ~~~ *Health Promotion Principle for Older Adults:*
- Individualized:
~ Based on Social Determinants of Health
~ Story - Most important thing about the individual
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